From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 02:40:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D748E29 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail5.networktest.com (mail5.networktest.com [204.109.60.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 341FCA2C for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail5.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438C52FCCAA for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.networktest.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail5.networktest.com [127.0.0.1]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80830-10 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tejay.local (cpe-75-82-133-182.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.133.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dnewman@networktest.com) by mail5.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F10E82FCC96 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5330EC99.7040309@networktest.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:40:25 -0700 From: David Newman Organization: Network Test Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using pkg with build options References: <372190939.49499.1395582789284.JavaMail.mail@webmail12> <20140323150144.029c571e.freebsd@edvax.de> <532F15D8.10403@FreeBSD.org> <20140323185258.e389040f.freebsd@edvax.de> <5330C120.40905@networktest.com> <5330CB20.3090705@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:40:27 -0000 On 3/24/14, 6:55 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, David Newman wrote: > >>> Using Poudriere to build binary packages of your own is not required. >>> But if you want to do it, there's a short section on setting up >>> Poudriere in the Handbook: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-poudriere.html >>> >> >> Part of the appeal of pkg is that package binaries install much faster >> than waiting for 'portmaster -aD' to complete after updating the ports >> tree. >> >> However, if I understand that poudriere link, it would still build my >> custom packages from ports, and thus there isn't much time savings. >> Correct? > > Yes. Poudriere is really only helpful if you have multiple machines > using the same binary packages. One machine builds all the packages, > then the rest of them install from it. Is this also true when updating the ports tree? E.g., update ports on poudriere box, rebuild packages, install packages from poudriere box to all other boxes. That would be a huge time saver, not just for initial setup but each $interval when ports gets updated. Thanks again dn